＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ Commercial city Cortana

[< UBM > [Demon Maggots Reborn De Welmis] has been crusaded]

[I elect MVP]

[[Benetnache] has been elected MVP]

[Giving [Benettonache] an MVP Benefit [Health Maggots Shoes De Welmis]]

With the announcement, a white boot dropped in front of Benetnache's eyes.

Without paying attention to those boots, Benetnache looks at the burning hole where [De Welmis] disappeared from a distance.

The heat travels through the air and reaches Benetnache, but the ground effects of combustion in the ground are small.

The Abyss Cannon is a weapon capable of compressing firepower at a pinpoint, and there has been no damage to human life outside the designated radius of 600 Metel.

Still... within the 600 Metel area, many buildings have collapsed and the buildings that were beside the burning holes are on fire.

Its sight, centered around the burning hole, is one ruin in itself.

Once upon a time, a snail of ruin created somewhere in this world.

Persephone's "Underworld Guided Regression Gate" can resurrect any tian or monster living in the land in its full-season appearance.

That is to say, it can resurrect any ruin in the world that is not in the hands of the Master.

Although it can evoke ruin that should have perished, Benetnache is therefore called "immortality” or “the return of ruin (Ruin Returner)" by Tian and is in awe.

Most of all... he doesn't care what he calls himself.

Because he only sees his wishes and the path to follow for them.

"Hmm. Benefits. Armor skills are an original minor change."

Instead of Benettonache, Persepone picks up the boot and ascertains its performance.

"It turns into maggots when the wearer is wounded, and that seems to be the original skin, meat and organs after a certain amount of time. And then there's SP consumption reduction and automatic recovery with gear correction. Not bad..."

…………

"It's not my husband's hobby, and let's consider it a cost of special skills"

The Purple Gate, made of special skills, has already begun to crumble its shape into the dust of light.

The [Amber Abyss] team that emerged from it has also already become a soul and returned to the interior of Persephone for the time of rest.

"So what do we do now? Do you want to join Hugo and the others?

"... no, I'm gonna log out a little bit. I'll be back in about an hour, so then I'll hide myself and move to Mercava. Vina and Trim are waiting."

I said, "Oh, I don't want to see this city."

"Yeah. I need to pick you up soon"

"But what about the promise to receive information?

"... you won't have to exchange contacts because you'll be able to contact me from anywhere if you want to."

"So is that."

Then Benetnache manipulated the menu and logged out.

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…………

Benettonache back in real life...... it was his own ceiling without electricity that got into the eyes of the players.

It's dark outside because of the rain, and the rooms that closed the curtains are uncertain day and night.

Then he - with his hands like thin dead trees - takes the mobile device on the pillow.

That has records of incoming calls and voicemail calls from my mother, who lives at my parents' house, and after I heard what it was about, I emailed her: 'I'm fine. Don't worry,' he puts in a sentence he's used to typing.

Then add, "Sorry I can't go home for spring break," and send it.

In fact, there is no such thing as spring break.

This past year...... because he barely attended the college he enrolled in.

That's how he gets up after sending the text, but his thin feet are something that makes me anxious to be able to support his body from the side.

After finishing his excretion in the toilet and a light shower in the bathroom, he removes the tubed nutritious food and mineral water from the fridge and puts them in his stomach working.

Then I went back to bed and logged in wearing the < Infinite Dendrogram > hardware.

As such, he returns to the world of < Infinite Dendrogram > as [Pluto] Benettonache.

Real... leave who you are.

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■ Commercial city Cortana, one kilometre southwest

A short distance from the commercial city of Cortana, there has been huge quicksand for over a hundred years.

A giant quicksand of 300 meters in diameter that will not let anything fall inside escape forever.

It was like ant hell. It was, in fact, ant hell.

It is a pure dragon monster, [sandhole worm] with the skills to make quicksand, similar to the insect Arijigoku… a flock of land (...).

Due to the secondary effects of the savepoint set by Environmental Management AI, wild monsters, including [Sandhole Worm], cannot instinctively approach Cortana more than a certain amount.

It was this giant quicksand that made those [sandhole worms] wander close to the city.

Whether you are a skilled < master > or a [dragworm] living in this desert, survival and victory will be difficult if dragged into giant quicksand.

This giant quicksand near the starting point of Cardina is a novice killer of its kind near the kingdom's capital, the Old Rave Orchard, far more dangerous than that.

But that giant quicksand is now......

"GYUBAAAAA…………!?"

He was about to disappear, along with the cries of the [Sandhole Worm] Terminator heard from this side of the quicksand.

Occasionally, a [sandhole worm] resembling an aridgok emerges from the quicksand, but its crust is not concave with the veco on the inside… it becomes smaller as if it were dry and sinks into the sand.

After such a sight lasted for a few hours, the disconnected demon was no longer heard.

At the same time, the giant quicksand that [Sandhole Worm] was forming with his skills stops its flow and turns into just a desert.

Thus, the little girl's hand was protruded out of the sand, which was merely a blur.

The hand is holding the axe, and the axe lifts the girl's entire body with buoyancy by skill.

It was... Emily who showed up from the sand.

Although the garment is dirty with sand, its appearance is satisfactory to the five bodies.

There are no scratches on my body, and I have not [frozen].

Emily [froze] in Hugo's Hell Gate and was dumped in the center of quicksand by AR I. CA.

But then, in giant quicksand, it was crushed by [Sandhole Worm] and resuscitated by "Survival of the fittest".

It took me a while to escape because I was killing one [sandhole worm] at a time and sucking resources away.

But in the end, Emily, the immortal, succeeded in returning safely from the dead.

but......,

…………

Emily's expression from the quicksand seemed... gruesome (...).

Emily in automatic killing mode has no expression...... should have.

But as if, badly angry at being abandoned in quicksand, … its eyes dwell in strong hostility.

"- out (...)"

Emily remained grumpy in the face, saying a word...... not "negative".

That's how she kept standing holding the axe in both hands...... Jonalde Paztri,

…………

Unexpectedly, I looked up at the sky.

The sky has already finished dusk and is at night.

As if she wanted to make sure of that, Emily returns her gaze to her front.

Approximately one kilometer ahead of that gaze, the city of Cortana was visible.

Besides, she crosses the yonar depaztri in both hands...

That's a preliminary behavior for a skill that even < IF > members don't know about.

Emily in the Auto Kill mode of conducting the battle is out of conversation.

And regular Emily never talks to anyone about her abilities, and nobody even knows < IF > because she's suspicious if she even recognizes them in the first place. I wouldn't even have seen the status in detail. Even if you are a member of the same clan, the trump card is hidden, so naturally. (except for Gabella, who boasted eloquently of her special skills)

Therefore, as a member of IF, Emily recognizes that the reason for her immortality is "a special skill of constant activation."

But that is due to the usual passive skill of "survival of the fittest".

Special skill… exists separately.

"Harvest Seshiha (Yonal) -"

And now Emily was trying to use it.

If activated, the ability to exterminate the city state will depend on how it is used.

- Wide area extermination special skill.

"- Night Heaven no (Depaz) -"

The blow of a disaster that causes unprecedented damage is now about to be unleashed precisely towards downtown Cortana.

"- Eating (t)"

"Emily! Are you all right!

Called from the rear...... blocked by Zhang's voice worrying about Emily.

…………

As soon as she heard her voice, Emily slumped her hands down with axes.

Shortly after that motion, the two axes return to the crest of her left hand.

And Emily looked back behind her back,

"Grandpa? Did we?

I asked Zhang running over with a tongueless voice... turning to her face as the original Emily.

"I'm sorry I'm late. Lose the Ethereal Princess with Emily. I was searching around Cortana."

…… What the hell?

Emily said so with her neck tilted like she didn't understand.

Then I shake my head fluttering, making a possum of noise and bringing it to Zhang.

"Emily?"

"... It's kind of cute. Umi, no, don't..."

That's what I said, and I started to sleep with Suyasuya.

Zhang was a little confused, but he held Emily back and left behind him.

Then Zhang removed the small sand boarding that he kept from Rascal from the [garage] and left Cortana in a hurry so that AR · I · CA and others could not find him.

Emily was also some distance from Cortana...... logged out that day.

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Emily, wake up.

Logged out, she gets out of bed and walks around her room barefoot with Petapeta.

Then a nurse in white enters the room with the sound of an automatic door opening.

"Emily, how are you?

"Mm-hmm!

"Yes. Then I'll bring you dinner in a little while."

"Yes."

That's how she drops off the nurse, Emily looks around her room...... a white hospital room.

Then, look out the window.

Then carry the indoor chair under the window and ride on it for an outside view.

In a cloudless sky I see the moon showing a beautiful pattern.

The forest nearby drops the night book and the owl squeal reaches her ears.

She was watching such a night's scene alone.

- Plaid fitted, over the window.

Happy with the view or didn't you? Emily gets out of her chair and goes back to bed.

I sat down a bit on the bed and waited for a familiar psychiatric hospital (...) dinner for her.

"I was there today."

Memories of the day...... Emily shrugged so when she walked through Zhang and Cortana and remembered only eating ice cream at the cafe and looking around at the bazaar (...).

In the time that is missing in today's midst, there is no turning to consciousness.

It's just that it was fun, but it's still in her.

"Tomorrow, what shall we do?

That's how, like an innocent child, Emily put her mind to it tomorrow, which she still doesn't see.

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□ [Armored Pilot] Hugo Receps

[Pluto] The amber dragon Benetnache called out must have been something that would have marked the end of that case.

After a night of a series of events that disturbed the commercial city of Cortana, the city was beginning to regain its calm.

After that, support personnel had arrived from the capital of Cardina at the Master's contact and were hitting the tide of things in the city.

Dealing with the wounded and those who lost their homes that occurred in this mess.

The decision to temporarily take Cortana's politics with the death of the mayor in an organization directly under the council.

Various responses had been made in parallel, such as the pursuit of the afterlife of the mayor and persons who had been associated with him.

The ripples in this disturbance were huge, but they are still in the form of being stopped at the water.

If [De Welmis] had continued to expand as it were, this Cortana could have been devastated.

Besides, if that burning hole made by that amber dragon was connected to an oasis in the middle of this city... I also heard that the city would have been wiped out by a water vapor explosion in the worst case scenario.

Based on the 600 Metel designation, Benetnache must have done it on the calculation, but it was impressive that he hit the task or Tian was desperately cooling the burning hole.

I wish I could have helped, but I had no choice but to leave it to you because Hell Gate doesn't even work against hateful terrain.

"............... Benettonache, huh"

After all that, Benettonache and Persepone,... and I never saw Emily again.

Before they even noticed, they may have left this cortana. I also had a feeling that Emily, dumped by her master, was not in “jail”, although she was unsure.

Maybe I'll see them again someplace.

Thus, in this Cortana, where they left off, the only remaining master seemed busy moving around.

Even then, in Cardina, he has strong authority right under the chancellor, and he says he has a lot to do.

My master can see. My job is a kick-ass person, so I guess I'm still working on it.... I can honestly respect that kind of place in my normal personal life anyway.

Speaking of which, I was originally a person from another country, so I didn't have much to help with these things.

Still, [White Rose] is enough to help remove debris, etc.

However, it is already over because the Master has gathered.

That's how now, I'm waiting for my master at the cafe, like yesterday.

…………

I have some thoughts about this one.

Last time in Hermine, beads could be recovered with little sacrifice.

But in this Cortana, many sacrifices have been made.

That is a sacrifice by Emily, who supposedly visited this city in relation to the beads.

It turns out from the investigation… the sacrifice of the people killed by this mayor of Cortana to use the power of the beads.

And sacrifice by the liberated [De Welmis].

This one incident was such that one city could perish.

... Still, the disturbance about the beads is not over.

Two beads collected by the master.

One bead broken in this incident.

Four other things, beads are taken from the treasure trove of the Yellow River.

I don't know if everything is in this cardina... but my master said something horrible.

"I found out in an additional investigation. On the seven spilled beads - he's worse (...) than the mythological class," he said.

Beyond the mythological class.

That means that a monster comparable to < SUBM > is in hand and sleeping in a seal that you may never know can be solved.

I don't even want to think about what's going to happen more than things like this have caused in [De Welmis].

But...... you can't be lost in preventing it.

I'm looking for a bead caught up in my master, but if it's to prevent things like this one... I'll follow you.

I can't believe I left you... because you're not sleeping well.

"Yu, queer, please wait"

While I was thinking about that, my master came into the store.

"Master, till you are tired............ Master"

I worked hard on a master who should have worked as a... I paid attention to that neck.

"What?

"Kismark, there's more."

"Ah."

When I said that, the master held his neck by his hand.

Master, it's the other way around.

Or vice versa.

"... Master?

"Haha. Look, yesterday, I told you about the maid who was sent as an assassin."

"Right."

You wanted to have a chat (pillow talk) until morning.

"That kid, he didn't seem to get up from the Atashi Inn after all. When the mayor's mansion disappeared, he wasn't there and he was safe."

"What a blessing to be unhappy again."

"No, no, I'm sure you're lucky for her. I slept with a happy face yesterday."

"Master?"

"... oh yeah. So, I met her again after the incident, and she was pretty upset. That would blow my workplace away and make me panic if all my bosses and colleagues died."

"So?"

"I spent the night comforting you."

...... please return my respect held by the thought "I guess my master is working hard by now".

"I wish I could"

"Queer's statement is kind of deja vu!

My master is about to blow me to the point where I was worried until just before.

... Is this guy a genius to ruin my grid?

Either way, that's something I have to ask my master.

That's what I've been wondering since yesterday.

"Master"

"What?

"Yesterday, I was shooting a thunderous shell at [De Welmis], but... isn't that the bead power of the < UBM > that you say you recovered last time?

"Gikku!?"

... You just said "gibberish" with your mouth.

"Master, didn't you say that the bead was handed over to the transporter?

"Uh, yeah. That's what I was telling you..."

"... Master?

The master explores the inner pockets of the flight jacket he wears with Goso Goso,... and takes out the beads and places them on the table.

"Actually, I've always had it... haha"

"... then say yes"

"I don't know, come on."

"Gu!?... Oh, because Atashi didn't think about it! Because it's all what Grandpa Glamous thought!

Grandpa Gramas?

"It's a long time to talk."

That said, the master began to tell us what had happened.

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After recovering the beads in Hermaine, the master apparently made contact with the capital by telecommunications.

"That's why I got the first bead for now, will you turn the transporter around?

"Impossible."

However, the transporter was refused secondment.

Apparently, there are several reasons.

First of all, that the beads cannot be placed in the item box.

It is not suitable for the haulier because it is left behind when logging out of.

Even if it can be carried in the first place, it doesn't necessarily mean that the Master is driven by greed and doesn't escape to the reward weapon craving.

I can put my credibility down. It's about the members of Sephiroto, but it's only the master himself who's free for transport.

Or so, even though Tian carries it, Cardina doesn't originally have many powerful Tians.

Few tiens exist that can counteract more than quasi < super >, and if beads are known to be transported, the formula is high that they will be raided and taken away.

The most powerful and reliable haulier left by the erasure method was still the master.

But it's not like the master can log in full for two or four hours either.

It is possible for anyone to take the beads for the timing at which the master is logging out.

If you are known to keep holding the beads, you will always be targeted somewhere.

So first, you needed to deceive me first, 'I don't have a bead' and my only companion.

My master has also confirmed that I or Cuco do not possess the Verdict.

It only makes sense to tell us that 'the beads were given to the transporter'.

It is also possible that in the future, when I am raided during the Master's logout, they will ask me about the whereabouts of the beads.

If I consider the information that 'the bead gave to the transporter' to be true at that time (...), I would assume that it is also true if the other person had a 'verdict of authenticity'.

"[The Shooting Down King] has the beads? 'The same applies if the other person asks.

The person who pulled the information from me... will be searching for a fictional transporter.

Taking the convenient skill of "True or False Verdict" backwards, this trap is what the master calls the Grandfather of Glamous - [King of Play] Grandmaster said he was immediately coming up with and letting the master execute it.

By the way, speaking of how the master kept the beads during the logout, he turned on a simple transmitter during the desert trip to bury them in the desert sand at the logout point, just as he did when he was in the city.

If you want to set a trap or something bad, it seems that's why you can be discovered in Trap Sensing skills.

Either way I believed the master's words, so I guess it was a good decoy when it came to this transport.

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"... but now we know too"

"Oh, yeah. But it's not a problem anymore."

"Saying?

When I asked, the master showed a map of the window on the tabletop.

show it to me by zooming in on it and pointing to one of those points

"Dragnomad is getting close to this Cortana right now. [Blue Opera] Then you can arrive by the end of the day and give the chancellor the two beads you have now."

I see. Can I lift the information because the transport itself is almost over?

"Because that's why Atashi is going to fly away. There 'll be a lot of things to do over there, and you can wait in Cortana for a while."

"Right. I have a school too, so just say it's just fine."

I can afford about six hours in this time, but if I don't have anything to do, it won't change if I log out anymore.

"Oh, so is that. No, I'm going to forget to stick with you because you're unemployed."

...... I have trouble commenting.

Either way, that's how I temporarily broke up with my master, logged out and went back to real life.

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When I removed the hardware I was wearing, I heard a little bird announcing the dawn from the outside.

Looking at the time, it's after five in the morning.

There are two hours to the dorm breakfast and three hours to start.

I'm a little sleepy, so I can sleep for an hour or so, but I might as well take a shower and wake up, rather than sleep halfway through.

Take off your clothes and head to the bathroom provided for your room.

Operate the panel installed on the wall to remove hot water from the shower and bathe it from your head.

The dormitory at Lorraine College of Women (our school) was good in a private room. Because if I had a roommate, I would wake her up with the sound of a shower.

"Yeah, refreshed"

Having finished my shower, I dried my hair and body before changing into a school uniform.

I was running out of an hour until breakfast while I was doing so, so I'll briefly check the text I'll use in today's class.

Still, I had extra time, so I've been looking at video sites and stuff that I hadn't checked lately.

"... ah"

"[Demon General] Logan Godhardt Failed Misery! The video 'was in the rankings of the game category.

The post was a few days ago and the content was a video of [Demon General], the number one duel in the Empire of Drife, taking a defeated backdrop after battling him in the kingdom Rookie......

"... you're the same."

I see him relative to [General Demon] in the video, [Gozmaize]... and I remember when I stood up to my sister.

When I remember that before, I had an admiration for him and a burden.

But now, I can just be a little proud... and look straight at it.

That may be because I (Hugo) yesterday was able to choose to face difficulties like him.

"One day, I wish we could tell each other what's going on"

I talked to him like this that day when I met him at the coffee shop just before he was hostile.

"Oh well. Then it's time to say goodbye here. Oh, you want to register your friend?

'... let's stop now. Next... Next time we see each other'

The next time I saw him, I knew he was an enemy, so even if we could be friends, I thought he was next.

After all, I haven't seen him once yet after being relative to him as an enemy.

Whether he thinks of me now as an enemy or as a friend again,... I don't know.

But when I saw him again, I apologized to him about that day and... I wanted to be friends again if I was going to make it happen.

"That, too, may depend on your sister's relationship with him... Ah"

I shrugged about that, and I realized.

videos of him and [the demon general], the author's name is labeled 'F'.

It doesn't have to be this......

"... over there, still seems stubborn"

My sister apparently is still obsessed with him, more than the slime of Gideon's case...... she's gathering stalking conflicting intelligence.

This video must have gotten in the process too.

I see the depth of your sister's obsession.

I thought of his relationship with my sister, who was no place for a dog monkey, and I sighed with a little shuddering.

"Yury, it's time to open the dining room, so let's go have dinner."

And I just got a breakfast invitation from my classmate Sonya from outside the room.

"Yes."

In response to her voice, I close the video site.

…………

About the beads, about the [Pluto], about Emily, and about your sister and him.

In < Infinite Dendrogram > there are piles of problems, but I put them on the shelf for a moment.

Ice and rose pilot, Hugo Receps is off for a bit.

Until after school today, let's live as Yuri Götier, a junior middle school student at Lorraine College of Women.

Hugo is me, too, but Yuri is me, too.

Neglect one of them, because I (I) shouldn't be.

"Yury?"

"I'm coming now."

In response to a friend's invitation, I left the room and took my daily step as Yuri.

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